"More important" is meaningless. Are the wheels on a car "more important" than the engine? We need to imagine possible explanations for what we see - but it's equally important to test our imaginings against reality And many that didn't work. Imagination kills.
Sure, without knowledge you are free to think whatever you like, completely unbounded by reality. What emerges from such thoughts, though, are fantasies. They may be useful if you are a Hollywood screenwriter - not so useful when you want to make things that work in the real world.
As I already said in message #21, "We need to imagine possible explanations for what we see - but it's equally important to test our imaginings against reality." You don't test your imaginings. You don't even seem to be able to imagine how to test them.
I think having faith is wise, on the superstition of hope and the wish to be. The Bible can’t be scientific or it would be overly dangerous to human beings. I see Adam as the fallen God of LOVE, who saw both an eternal war and ever after at once, the self and the it can be separate through non-self and Hindu descent.
This statement is not even wrong. Are you claiming that Adam was capable of abstract thought and expectation? Is that how the earliest cave dwellers expressed their deep philosophical thoughts? Pictures of animals? The self and the "it" or "id"? Adam was of Hindu descent? You have a lot of splaining to do.................
kx000: Since you haven't bothered to actually address any of the questions I put to you, I have no further interest in engaging with you. Having a conversation means listening to what the other person has to say and engaging with them. If you just want to get on your soap box, I'm out. I might also add that it's very rude to just ignore what somebody is saying to you in a conversation. Didn't anybody teach you that?
Yes, but that always tests something else. You cannot test time itself. It is impossible to measure time with time. What is the duration of duration?
So you're measuring the duration of the tick tock, not time itself. You cannot measure something that does not exist yet.
That's like saying you're not measuring a two-by-four with a tape measure. But you are. You're comparing a known length (tape measure) with an unknown length (two-by-four). With a clock, you're comparing a known interval of time (tick tock) with an unknown interval. You're not. You're counting the number of ticks and tocks after they happen.